Posted on 06/10/2013 5:08:37 AM PDT by marktwain
The choice of Minnesota U.S. Attorney B. Todd Jones to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and Explosives (ATF) made him the face of a national anti-violence agenda growing from the shock of the schoolhouse shooting massacre in Connecticut.
But much like President Obama’s effort to ban assault weapons and expand background checks on gun buyers, Jones’ nomination has become stuck in the mire of congressional politics.
On Tuesday, nearly six months after his name was put forward, Jones is expected to face off with some of the most skeptical Republican critics of gun restrictions and the ATF, an agency that has become a stand-in for GOP ire with Obama’s Justice Department and embattled Attorney General Eric Holder.
The White House has prepared Jones for a fractious grilling when he enters the Senate Judiciary Committee room. But the long-anticipated encounter also will give Jones his first chance to go on national television to answer questions that have been raised about his leadership as ATF’s temporary acting director and Minnesota’s top federal law enforcement officer.
(Excerpt) Read more at startribune.com ...
The phrase "mire of congressional politics" is MSM-speak for "Republicans not rubber-stamping everything the Democrats want to ram down our throats."
Just another government bow wow...
Notice all of soetoro appointments are muslim, black and Hispanic frothing anti-American liberals.
Great! Now it is primary job responsibility of the head of the BATFE to be "the face of a national anti-violence agenda"... ...[as long as it doesn't involve saying/doing anything 'controversial' to those who practice the religion of peace, of course]...
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